Environmental ethics is not one of those areas of bioethics that gives a buzz as much as discussions on the status of the embryo or euthanasia...

The US-led attacks against an autocrat in oil-rich Libya have opened the Obama administration to questions about why it’s holding back from more robust support for opposition forces challenging other dictators...

Although it might be still too early to gauge the full environmental and societal costs of what has actually happened in Fukushima’s nuclear power plant in Japan there is no doubt that this is not a problem that will go away easily or quickly...

President Barack Obama said he was setting clear and unmistakable terms for the US role in Libya: it would be limited, lasting days not weeks, and its purpose was to protect Libyan citizens...

Last year the European Union opted to dedicate a full year to poverty and social exclusion. I must say that a number of activities were organised to comply with the message that the EU wanted to convey to its citizens...

For a while, these past weeks, the news from Libya repeatedly threatened to disappear from the main news items. ...

For a while, these past weeks, the news from Libya repeatedly threatened to disappear from the main items in the news.First there was the terrible earthquake and tsunami and nuclear complications in Japan....

Nowadays, the way one looks can still be an obstacle. In Malta, as in the rest of the world, Rastafarians are victims of discrimination. ...

The Prime Minister and his deputy came in for heavy criticism from usually friendly quarters – elderly politicians and columnists amongst others – for not offering Malta’s facilities as a military base for the executio...

Vera maghandomx xghamlu (they really have nothing better to do) were the words that sprang to mind, when I read the story about the soldier who ate a poisonous beetle for a bet. ...